Technical Artist - Remote

Uken is looking for a Technical Artist to join the team. This role will be responsible for creating functional, performant and awesome visual effects for our games. Uken is a mobile game development studio that embraces product innovation as a strategy for success. In order to leverage our creative spirit we maintain a lean development strategy and sharp focus on delivering highly engaging experiences.

As a Ukenite, you'll be working on meaningful things like :

• Creating stylized visual effects to bring our next generation of games to life
• Creating awesome 2D and UI animations
• Optimizing VFX effects to fit design and technical constraints
• Developing systems and tool-sets for artists and developers

Your background should include:

• 3+ years experience with Unity, including best practices and asset optimizations
• Proficiency with animations, particle systems and material setup
• Experience working with shaders / creating shaders
• Significant experience with Unity UI
• Experience with Photoshop and ability to create assets for the visual effects
• Moderate experience with C#
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Appetite to learn, grow, and take on increasingly more responsibility

It's a big plus if you have:

• A portfolio of self­-made games
• Good knowledge of additional art toolsets (3D studio, Maya, etc..)
• Degree in Graphic Art or related field

We believe in a fun & meaningful work environment:

• You'll be equipped with a high-end laptop, mobile device
• Competitive salary, extended health and dental benefits and allowances
• You’ll work in a collaborative, coaching and mentoring culture
• Remote and in-person team building events and celebrations
• 4 Day Workweek and remote work model!

About Us

Uken builds games that people everywhere love. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Jeopardy! World Tour are the top 2 trivia games, engaging millions of global players every month. In 2020, Uken released Ava’s Manor, a solitaire game where users renovate and decorate the manor while discovering mysterious clues and dabbling in a romantic love story.

We consider ourselves data-driven designers, technologists, and artists. Through collaboration, we pair the craft of design with feedback and data to deliver a pace and rhythm in each game session that immerses our audience and leaves them wanting more. We have a quirky, nerdy culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, quality ideas, and a data-driven mindset. We believe in moving quickly and improving constantly, and that mantra is reflected in the weekly updates we make to our games and internal technologies. We have an appetite for pushing technical boundaries but with a focus on practical use.

We take entertainment seriously.

Uken welcomes applications from racialized people, Indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, and people from gender and sexually diverse groups who would contribute to the further diversification of our team. Uken is committed to offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or accommodation for any part of the selection process due to a disability, please contact us at jobs@uken.com